The Mailman Quotes

“That was a strange way of looking at it, to see a funeral as a popularity contest in which final judgment was passed on a man’s life by the number of people who attended, by the size of the crowd. But it was also strangely appropriate since many people did judge the worth of others by the quantity of their social relationships.”
― Bentley Little, The Mailman

“That was one thing he’d learned the past two weeks: how much he was affected by the mail, how much the mail intruded on all aspects of his life.”
― Bentley Little, The Mailman

“Mail, by its very nature, was neither all good nor all bad. It carried indifferently messages both positive and negative, filtering nothing, making no distinctions.”
― Bentley Little, The Mailman

“He picked up the envelope. His name was on the front, written in a shaky, childish scrawl. He tore the envelope open and pulled out the piece of paper inside. On it were written two words in that same shaky hand: Stay Away”
― Bentley Little, The Mailman

“More than once she’d felt as though they were talking at each other rather than to each other.”
― Bentley Little, The Mailman